Building the British Sign Language Corpus

dc.contributor.author Schembri, Adam
dc.contributor.author Fenlon, Jordan
dc.contributor.author Rentelis, Ramas
dc.contributor.author Reynolds, Sally
dc.contributor.author Cormier, Kearsy
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-01T23:28:03Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-01T23:28:03Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10
dc.description.abstract This paper presents an overview of the British Sign Language Corpus Project—the first endeavor to create a machine-readable digital corpus of British Sign Language (BSL) collected from deaf signers across the United Kingdom. In the field of sign language studies, it represents a unique combination of methodology from variationist sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics. Unlike previous large-scale sign language sociolinguistic projects, the dataset is being annotated and tagged using ELAN software, given metadata descriptions, and the video data has been made accessible, with long-term efforts to make the dataset searchable on-line. This means, however, that participants must consent to having the video data of their sign language use made public. This puts at risk the authenticity of the linguistic data collected, as signers may monitor their production more carefully than usual. We discuss our attempt to minimize this problem by creating a dual-access archive.
dc.description.sponsorship National Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.format.extent 19
dc.identifier.citation Schembri, Adam, Jordan Fenlon, Ramas Rentelis, Sally Reynolds & Kearsy Cormier. 2013. Building the British Sign Language Corpus. Language Documentation & Conservation. 7: 136-154.
dc.identifier.issn 1934-5275
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4592
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher University of Hawaii Press
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
dc.subject British Sign Language
dc.subject Corpus linguistics
dc.subject Sociolinguistics
dc.subject ELAN software
dc.subject Digital archive
dc.title Building the British Sign Language Corpus
dc.type Article
dc.type.dcmi Text
prism.endingpage 154
prism.publicationname Language Documentation & Conservation
prism.startingpage 136
prism.volume 7
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